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[larrywjones]

will the 9400 m play dragon age origins if i install windows on a mac with bootcamp

[Gorath Alpha]

Not "well", especially when compared to Mac Pro systems with better video cards. Same as any PC, you always need a Mainline card, which has the "n600" in its name to denote performance. If it's only business graphics you care about, then a measly "n400" will get you by.

AFAIK, there is almost no major performance difference between a 9300 and a 9400.

www.gpureview.com/show_cards.php

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Modifié par Gorath Alpha, 09 décembre 2009 - 10:08 .

[Guy_E]

Depends on your definition of "well" - admittedly I haven't gotten very far yet, but on a late 2008 alubook, bootcamp and a 9400m, the game is flawless with graphics at medium, textures at high, antialiasing at 2x, at 1920x720 (16:9) resolution.



Definitely update your graphics drivers from the bootcamp ones to the Nvidia distributed ones, though.

[BomimoDK]

fantastic news, i'll be using crossover though. my processor is 2,53. is it only the processor that takes performance hits or does the GPU also get lower performance through crossover?

[Anders Wilhelmsson]

Have anyone had any experience with the mac release of DA:O? I have a 2009 macbook with the 9400m graphics (4gb ram, 2.13 ghz dual core). Will it run?

[casadechrisso]

Strangely, from what I've read here the people only having the 9400M (which is really not a gaming solution) seem to have less problems than the ones using the far better 9600M GT equipped Macbook Pros. Looks like the Mac port has some quirks there. I'd still suggest Bootcamp for getting most out of any game, but then again, nice someone's still doing Mac ports.

[Saxenoth]

I'm having the weirdest problems on my 2.13ghz 2009 white macbook running Snow Leopard with the latest firmware upgrades.

With 2GB of RAM, the game ran ok but video was choppy. The game sometimes slowed down, sped up again, sometimes crashed-- ok, seems to happen to everyone (but why, oh why?). I installed smcFanControl, maybe it helped in that no more Main Thread 0x0 errors appeared.

Now upgraded RAM to 4GB (Kingston w/ Hynix chips, labeled specifically for Macs). Now the game stutters and causes a complete hard freeze-- complete. It's not just the game that dies, it's the whole machine. Sometimes it's stuck on an infinite loop of audio and video, stutter/stutter/stutter forever, and it will not respond to anything but a hard shutdown with the power button.

What's going on? Is it the new RAM? Is it the 9400M video card? Is it the CPU?-- can't be CPU, I'm running Prime95 for hours and no problem-- CPU load reads 188% and here I am typing this message. Clearly the processor can handle the load.

Is it RAM? Why does it happen with 4GB and not 2GB? Wouldn't it be the opposite? Can't be the new memory unless it is how it interacts with the Nvidia-- here's a RAM compatiblity list for the 9400M:

http://www.nvidia.co...576-001_v01.pdf

If I read that correctly I have the RAM they ask for: Hynix DDR2 800 2GB. Brand new. Passed Memtest with flying colors. EVerything else works, I even opened a bunch of video screens at the same time to see: Netflix, Hulu, Youtube, at the same tie I'm running Prime 95 and processing a very large TIF on the GIMP. Yes, audio and video are choppy as hell but there are na hard freezes. This system is rock solid.

Is it the OSX porting, then? HEEEEELP!!! I wanna buy all the expansions and sequels but I won't experiment with non-refundable purchases.

[Gorath Alpha]

If you had a standard PC, with the typical Setup, I'd suggest checking whether you had a conflict between the settings there and the new RAM. You need to visit the Mac forum, no matter that you are running the Windows version of the game, because it certainly sounds like a hardware problem, not software.

[Saxenoth]

Ah, yes, thanks, Google landed me here directly while I was searching for 9400M issues. I'll repost in the Mac forum.

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Mac forum sez "I don't meet the requirements" to post there.  

Modifié par Saxenoth, 15 juillet 2011 - 01:54 .

[Gorath Alpha]

You haven't registered in your forum profile like you are supposed for that forum, or in the spoilers forums for DAO. I forgot to tell you we like to ask you to do so in here, but since I was sending you there, and didn't know for sure they'd have you locked out, I let that slip past.

Having just visited the Mac forum, I can tell you it is stone cold dead.  You'll need to find a hardware forum for Macs that actually has some people paying attention to the place, sorry.  

Modifié par Gorath Alpha, 15 juillet 2011 - 04:09 .

[Saxenoth]

I guess I'll contact EA support and see what they say, I can't find anything online about this.

The game looks amazing on a new Macbook Pro btw-- it's my older machine w/ the 9400M GPU that croaks while running it. Alright, I'm out of here, thanks.